Forest creatures.
The Critics: Arts Very little is known about Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538), the painter of St George and the Dragon, a small and deeply enigmatic picture dating from 1510. Altdorfer's familiarity with this old tradition is given credence by the tiny size of the St George - it is just 11 inches high...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 149; no. 5519; pp. 52 - 54 |
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| Sumario: | The Critics: Arts Very little is known about Albrecht Altdorfer (1480-1538), the painter of St George and the Dragon, a small and deeply enigmatic picture dating from 1510. Altdorfer's familiarity with this old tradition is given credence by the tiny size of the St George - it is just 11 inches high - as well as its miniaturist technique and that it is painted on parchment stuck on board. Among his older contemporaries, both Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer made detailed studies from nature; Da Vinci as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of the world and Dürer (whose work Altdorfer certainly knew, and possibly the man too) as a way of understanding art. |
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